‘Richland:’ Irene Lusztig’s Tribeca Competition Doc About America’s Nuclear Weapons Program Lands Domestic Release Via Cinema Guild

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has picked up U.S. distribution rights to Richland, the latest feature from British-American nonfiction filmmaker and artist Irene Lusztig.

The film debuted at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival and has gone on to play across the international circuit, including IDFA, Sheffield, Doctober in Chicago, and the San Francisco International Film Festival’s Doc Stories. Cinema Guild will release the film on DVD and digital platforms on June 11.

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The pic is set in Richland, a town in Washington State next to the Hanford Nuclear Site which, from the early 1940s, housed nuclear government workers at the height of the Manhattan Project. It’s also a town that produced weapons-grade plutonium for decades, and its citizens have pridefully embraced their identity. The official synopsis reads: Richland offers a prismatic, placemaking portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past.

“We’re thrilled to be joining Cinema Guild, and in the company of so many films and filmmakers that we love and admire,” said director Irene Lusztig. The deal was negotiated by Peter Kelly with the film’s producers.

“There’s never been a more critical moment to re-examine our atomic legacy in this country,” said Cinema Guild President Peter Kelly. “With his film, Irene and her team provide that opportunity and do so with the utmost empathy, humanity, and hope.”

Cinema Guild’s upcoming theatrical releases include Angela Schanelec’s Music and the 4K restoration of Shinji Somai’s Moving. Recent releases include Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day, Bas Devos’ Here, and Deborah Stratman’s Last Things.

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